Hitchcock

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Despite a promising title, this drama shows no signs of being Hitchcockian.
Instead, the Master of Suspense is shoehorned into a statement of the
bleeding obvious in an irritatingly off-beam biopic set around the making of Psycho
in 1960.

On paper — and on the side of most London buses right now — the cast looks
terrific: Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Helen Mirren as his wife
Alma Reville, with Scarlett Johansson slinking into the Psycho shower
stall as the actress Janet Leigh. Mirren is up for a Best Actress Bafta on
Sunday for her performance as the smart, feisty Reville,